Dirt Showdown's Commentary Is The Audio Equivalent Of A Smirnoff Ice And A Popped Collar

As a fraternity man, and as a guy whose gamertag is, literally, "dudemanbestbro1", it pains me to say this but, yes, Dirt Showdown goes a little overboard with its whoa-killer-brah commentary. Who the hell did they hire for this, the SAE rush chairman?

Seriously, though it's not in this video, the announcer will call you "Gnarldog". Swear. If you gave Richmeister from Saturday Night Live a job calling the Saturday night dirt track races, it'd probably sound like this.

Dirt Showdown's demo is available now; the full game is coming from Codemasters on May 25. The soundtrack is turned all the way down to enhance the commentary but, as Chris Person tells me, "imagine him over the douchiest music ever."

I bought DiRT3 the other day - while any driving game is fun, they've completely removed the rally element from this game. There used to be Gran Turismo-like levels of altering you could do to your car, now you have 5 different options for the 5 different parts of a car. Pathetic.

For those hating on this for not being a rally game; it was never intended to be.

Codemasters have spun this off the Dirt series and a Dirt 4 is on the way with more rally gear. Dirt Showdown is some hybrid between bro and redneck disciplines (gymkhana and demolition derby respectively).

The game is still set in the same 'universe' so to speak. It's not Dirt 4, it's Dirt: Showdown.

I don't get why so many gamers are so butt hurt about this game, Codemasters are doing what every one wanted (myself included, but I've always enjoyed smashing up cars in games too); concentrating on making a rally specific game. This just isn't it yet, but it's on its way.

This is actually good news. They've split the product now, so you can have the demolition derby stuff in this product, and the real dirt (no showdown) comes next. Back to the rally roots. Here's a reference (there's probably others):
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/329373/dirt-4-will-focus-on-authenticity-after-showdown-says-codies/
For a start, they could just turn the online servers for DiRT (1) back on. That game was awesome. Pikes Peak anyone?

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